Technology / Infrastructure Architect

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain enterprise technology and infrastructure architecture aligned with business strategy and enterprise architecture direction.
• Assess the current infrastructure landscape, including compute, storage, networks, virtualization, operating systems, hosting, and shared technology services.
• Define target-state technology and infrastructure architecture and transition roadmaps.
• Develop technology standards, reference architectures, principles, patterns, and approved technology portfolios.
• Design scalable, resilient, secure, and highly available infrastructure architectures for on-premises, private cloud, public cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Assess infrastructure capacity, utilization, performance, availability, and lifecycle status.
• Identify technology obsolescence, end-of-life risks, technical debt, and modernization opportunities.
• Define architecture requirements for backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, high availability, and fault tolerance.
• Support network architecture, including LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, data center networking, connectivity, and segmentation.
• Support server, storage, virtualization, container, and platform architecture decisions.
• Collaborate with cloud, security, application, integration, data, and solution architects to ensure coherent end-to-end architecture.
• Support infrastructure platform selection, vendor evaluation, technical assessments, and solution reviews.
• Participate in architecture governance, technical design reviews, and Architecture Review Boards.
• Define infrastructure monitoring, observability, capacity management, and operational architecture requirements.
• Support data center modernization, consolidation, migration, and infrastructure transformation programs.
• Identify infrastructure architecture risks, constraints, dependencies, and mitigation actions.
• Required Experience and Qualifications
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in infrastructure engineering, systems engineering, network engineering, cloud, data center, or related technology disciplines.
• At least 5 years of hands-on experience in Infrastructure Architecture, Technology Architecture, or a comparable senior design role.
• Demonstrated experience designing complex enterprise infrastructure environments.
• Experience with data centers, compute, storage, virtualization, networking, cloud, and hybrid architectures.
• Experience supporting large-scale infrastructure modernization, migration, transformation, or consolidation programs.
• Strong experience working with technology vendors, infrastructure teams, security teams, and senior stakeholders.
• Personal Attributes
• Strong analytical and systems-thinking capability.
• Ability to design pragmatic technology architectures balancing resilience, performance, security, scalability, and cost.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work across multiple technology towers and architecture domains.
• Strong attention to infrastructure quality, standards, and operational practicality.
• Consulting mindset with the ability to support complex transformation programs.

Work Environment

• This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The role involves working within a dynamic environment focused on evolving enterprise technology and infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Experience with data centers, compute, storage, virtualization, networking, cloud, and hybrid architectures.